The next MacMacDev for Edinburgh has been announced for Thursday 10 July 2008, starting at 19:00. The venue is unchanged and is at Baroque, 39-41 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3JU. Full details can be found here.
There’s also a new mailing list for the community, full details can be found here.
Hope to see you there.
Ars Technica, the must read tech website has added a jobs board. Ars has a technically strong readership. Therefore their job board should be a useful resource for software businesses looking for high calibre staff. Ars always has great coverage of what is going on in the Mac and wider Apple world, so the new jobs board should be of particular interest to Mac software businesses.
One week ago, I created a MacSB group on LinkedIn after consulting the original MacSB community on Yahoo! The intention of the LinkedIn group is to help members find employees, clients, jobs, etc., targeted specifically at a network of people with Mac experience. The MacSB mailing group is a fantastic resource for help and advice on running a Mac software business. However job announcements are, quite sensibly, not permitted. The LinkedIn group is intended to augment the mail group and allow members to make use of professional networking to meet specific needs.
The response has been fantastic with the membership of LinkedIn group standing at around 70, just one week after it was announced. That’s 5% of the Yahoo! group, which has been around for several years, signed up within a week. Given that not all the Yahoo! group are LinkedIn members, or fans of formal professional networking, I think this is a fantastic response.
I’d like to thank everyone who has signed up and hope that it will be a helpful resource in the years to come.
In their recent joint interview at D5 (video, transcript), Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were both asked what they had learnt from the other. Bill said that he wished he had Jobs’s taste - to much laughter. It is not clear from the video whether he realised that he was mirroring Jobs’s 1996 criticism that Microsoft “has no taste”. Whereas Steve, in the background, and the audience clearly did.
Jobs’s answer was more interesting. He stated that Apple’s original strategy was to “build the whole banana”, and as a result there was not much scope for partnering with other companies. Microsoft, he felt, was excellent at this. Ironically he felt, quite correctly, that the one company Apple has successfully partnered with throughout its history is Microsoft itself.
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